Author name: davidswanson

MEMO
To: Democratic Representatives and Senators
From: Mandate for Peace campaign
Date: December 4, 2006
Re: Need for Democrats to Carry Out the Voters’ Mandate for Peace, End the War, and Bring the Troops Home Now

Dear Democratic Representatives and Senators,

You are about to head into a week that will include a Democratic forum on December 5th to discuss the future of Iraq, and the release of the recommendations of the Iraq Study Group. This memo is to remind you that regardless of what Zbigniew read more

By David Swanson

The Minneapolis Star-Tribune recently published an editorial that said of Bush: “His pronouncements now bear no resemblance to reality.” Now? Oh, never mind.

Marc Sandalow, the Washington Bureau Chief for the San Francisco Chronicle, recently wrote: “There is mounting evidence that the world of public Bush-speak — from his vigorous support for al-Maliki and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to his rejection of direct diplomacy with Syria and Iran — read more

By David Swanson

I did something worse than St. Augustine did when I was a kid. I must confess I broke into a house on the other side of town, and I did it just because it was such an ugly beat-down house that needed work so badly. Well, that and I kind of wanted to move out of my parents’.

I broke in at night and I started the renovations. I smashed a lot of the furniture up and actually knocked out a couple of walls. I destroyed the electric panel and stopped up the toilets. The place read more

By David Swanson

An astonishing 44 percent of Americans do not want President Bush impeached (Newsweek), 36 percent approve of the job he’s doing (AP-Ipsos), 33 percent support the Iraq War (CNN). What, you may ask, is the matter with these people? Well, primarily this: they get their news by watching television and occasionally glancing at a magazine or newspaper. They don’t know the things you know if you listen to progressive radio or search out news on the internet or read the read more

Please copy and paste the following text and Email it to Nancy Pelosi

We Support Rush Holt for Intelligence Committee Chair!
Holt is honest & intelligent; we need honest intelligence.

We, the undersigned, urge the Honorable Speaker Nancy Pelosi to appoint Rep. Rush Holt to be the next Chair of the House Intelligence Committee.

Rep. Holt has outstanding qualifications as a Princeton physicist, State Department arms control expert, solar energy patent holder, and 5-time Jeopardy champion. (The read more

By David Swanson

As long as there has been a U.S. military, people have been leaving it. That choice has never been more appropriate than today. Individuals who signed up to defend the United States are engaged in a war that was sold on the basis of lies, was entirely unnecessary, is making us less safe, has nothing to do with defending anyone, and which involves the horror of slaughtering men, women, and children by the hundreds of thousands. The majority of Americans want the war to end and read more

Dec 10th 12-5 PM in Santa Barbara, California

SIGN UP TO ATTEND

12PM Noon Rally for Impeachment and Human Rights
in De La Guerra Plaza
Speakers to include:
-Colonel Ann Wright, one of three U.S. State Department officials to publicly resign in direct protest of the invasion of Iraq in Mar. 2003.
-David Swanson, co-founder of AfterDowningStreet.org
-Rae Aballah, Code Pink
-Elizabeth De la Vega, author of U.S. v. Bush,
-Dr. Dennis Loo, co-author of Impeach read more